RE: Re: Make sure you need cortisol before you take it

[Guest guest]

Hi, Crystal,

Everything I've read about ginseng, is that it is support. It's like it

feeds the adrenals. It doesn't suppress

Them. Let me know if anyone has found differently in their reading.

Also, the natural cortisol, like Cortef, IF YOU ARE TRULY DEFICIENT IN

CORTISOL, is the safest way to go

According to Dr. Jefferies, " Safe Uses of Cortisol " . He's been using it for

over 50 years. Using it according

To his protocol, 20 mg. a day, increasing for stresses, like illnesses etc.,

is quite affective and safe. The key

Is if you are truly low.

I've heard you can have antibodies that affect the adrenals. But you'd have

to test for that.

in Va.

I'm sorry. I guess I made my email sound too casual. I do think

you should go up on meds slowly. It has taken me from August to

November to get up to 3 1/2 grains (actually took 4 grains for 3

days but decided to stay at 3 1/2 grains). I think one should go up

more slowly once they've reached 2-3 grains. My body was screaming

from lack of thyroid, it didn't hurt to go from 0-3 grains within 3

months.

I also agree you should do the adrenal testing before jumping into

cortisol. I do think people ought to test, not just with Dr. Rinds

questionaire, but with saliva testing. This is very important. I'd

think taking cortisol when your adrenals are properly functioning

could send ones system into confusion.

My test came back very, very low in cortisol at the different

times. So, taking thryoid alone was not going to help me.

I'm not taking adrenal support just for seratonin uptake! But that

is one of the benefits from taking it.

I'm also hoping that once I've reached my optimum and I'm not

exhausted then I will be able to decrease the adrenal support, but

probably won't be able to decrease the thyroid.

I don't know about taking cortisol long term. Any opinions? In my

30's, I took the Triple Root Ginseng for 5 years. I was taking it

because of post partum/ adrenal exhaustion. If there is a problem

in taking adrenal support long term... perhaps that's why I crashed

this summer... from going off the ginseng then when stress came into

my life, my adrenals didn't know what to do because they were

suppressed from me taking the Ginseng too many years.

From what I've read, some think of taking adrenal meds to support

their system while getting on Armour or while upping the meds...

just to support the overall system. And you're right, others don't

need adrenal support at all. But that's not me.

Does having antibodies makes a difference in one having adrenal

fatigue or adrenal exhaustion?

Warmly,

Crystal